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Local COVID-19 updates
Sep. 2nd, 2021 05:39 pm( Wall-o-text )
Not happy that deaths are up day-over-day, but drops in cases and hospitalizations are definitely encouraging. (The raw numbers are still too high for my liking, though.) The seven-day averages are also a bit of a mixed bag, as those for cases and percent-positive are both down compared to yesterday, while those for deaths and hospitalizations are both up.
The weekly city and town numbers are much less encouraging. Granted, the state has long since stopped reporting risk color codes; however, they can still be calculated from available information, and those calculations aren't good news at all. The numbers of low-risk communities continue to drop, while those for moderate and high risk communities continue to climb; forty-five cities and towns meet the high-risk "red" criteria this week, up from thirty-six last week. From a personal standpoint, the fact that my town of Acton is still green is nice to see, but the number of towns served by my church that have lept to yellow status is really concerning. (And the fact that the town next door, Littleton, has once again jumped into the red zone is ... disquieting, shall I say?)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 17 active and 1,064 cumulative cases as of September 1. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 11:45AM on May 28, 2021 reported 978 cumulative cases with 3 individuals in isolation, 943 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
Not happy that deaths are up day-over-day, but drops in cases and hospitalizations are definitely encouraging. (The raw numbers are still too high for my liking, though.) The seven-day averages are also a bit of a mixed bag, as those for cases and percent-positive are both down compared to yesterday, while those for deaths and hospitalizations are both up.
The weekly city and town numbers are much less encouraging. Granted, the state has long since stopped reporting risk color codes; however, they can still be calculated from available information, and those calculations aren't good news at all. The numbers of low-risk communities continue to drop, while those for moderate and high risk communities continue to climb; forty-five cities and towns meet the high-risk "red" criteria this week, up from thirty-six last week. From a personal standpoint, the fact that my town of Acton is still green is nice to see, but the number of towns served by my church that have lept to yellow status is really concerning. (And the fact that the town next door, Littleton, has once again jumped into the red zone is ... disquieting, shall I say?)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 17 active and 1,064 cumulative cases as of September 1. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 11:45AM on May 28, 2021 reported 978 cumulative cases with 3 individuals in isolation, 943 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.